Tuesday 5 August: Without real deterrence, any plan to tackle illegal migration will fail

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494 thoughts on “Tuesday 5 August: Without real deterrence, any plan to tackle illegal migration will fail”

  1. Good morning all.
    A bright start, all be it with a very light drizzle when I checked the thermometer earlier.
    Getting cooler with 15°C.

      2. Morning John.
        Who wants to hold a prickly cactus? That's why it's alone in bed.
        Hope you're well – good to see you here.

  6. Good morning, chums, and thanks to Geoff for today's new NoTTLe site. I spent some time on Wikipedia trying to find out whether today's Wordle was a Double Bogie or a Double Bogey. I found that it was the latter: Bogie is apparently Humphrey Bogart!

    Wordle 1,508 6/6

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    1. Morning Elsie ,Humphrey Bogart was called Bogie because he got up peoples noses

      2. I think you're confusing Humphrey Bogart with Gordon Brown, Spikey. (Good morning, btw.)

    2. Good morning Elsie and all

      'The petition is nearly up to half a million
      493,286 signatures

      Lucky guess today
      Wordle 1,508 3/6

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    3. I was lucky today, EB.
      It has an attractive symmetry.

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    4. My initial understanding of 'bogey' or 'bogie' was the undercarriage of a steam locomotive e.g. a 4-,6-0, or the power units to propel diesel railcars and electric railcars.

      Bogie came later; here's Lookin' at You, Kid!

      3. He's not alone (Chris Cork, for example). I wonder if he voted Labour last election – if so he never will again, or his colleagues. Starmer won't give a rat's behind about that, he's off to the EC. Rayner cosying up to the Muslim vote, needing to replace the indigenous lost votes. Hope this chap and his mates can hang in there, we need them, the country needs them.

    2. He's a very dangerous politician, wreck UK economy to be reliant on EU…another one hoping to gain a pension there, Starmer's footsteps. He won't be the only one.

  8. Good morning, all. Just passing through as we are both due at the Norwich hospital shortly for "tests". Bloody good wedding – marvellously looked after by a range of adult grandchildren. Great fun had by all.

    Play nicely – I may not reappear today.

  9. One thing stands out here.. with these two announcements.

    Israel's Channel 12 broadcaster reports that the Israeli government has made the decision to occupy the Gaza Strip on a permanent basis.
    Hardline politicians have called for the total removal of the Palestinian population, with talk about turning the enclave into the 'Rivera of the Mediterranean'.

    German constitutional lawyer Prof. Markus C. Kerber warned following a landmark asylum ruling that strips national governments of the ability to manage their own borders. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has carried out a “migration policy castration of the EU member states,”
    Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini called the ruling “another slap in the face to our country’s national sovereignty, yet another incentive for limitless landings, yet another confirmation not only of the uselessness but also of the harmfulness of European institutions of this kind, which are paid for by Italian citizens who, however, are constantly humiliated.”

    Summary: A lot more Palestinians coming your way, a lot more Gaza MPs.

    1. 410796+ up ticks,

      O2O,
      Surely if local councils consent to this then it will be their last term in office.

      1. But it won’t, that’s the problem, and by then the damage is done

    2. They don't want people to be healthy, happy and independent from government, in fact exactly the opposite. Didn't covid teach David Alton anything?

    3. I believe this just emphasis even more graphically how absolutely stupid these people in so called government really are.

    4. Allotment holders are among the few people I respect.
      I often walk Spartie past a nearby allotment. The quirkiness in itself is balm to the soul.
      And the self discipline is awesome.

      1. They are good fun.
        I had an allotment next to that of the then editor of the (Bradford) Telegraph and Argus.
        It was at the time of the Yorkshire Ripper.
        He was very interesting and his responsible journalism of the case and a few other nasty local ones eventually got him some high profile positions.
        I don't know, but I think silencing the Press was much more difficult in those days. Well before the machinations of Blair and the wrecking crew.

    1. They literally have no idea, do they? After the roaring success of the VAT raid on school fees, and IHT on farms. Wait til they put IHT on private pensions, and see how that collapses the amount of money ledt in private pensions when people get old and need it.

      1. Kinnock's programme of envy was rejected by the British people. No doubt he has not forgiven us for that.

      1. I used to think Kinnock was just a foolish socialist, but after seeing how he and his family have profiteered at the public's expense I regard them as next to criminals.

      2. Still are.
        Sonny Boy is an MP. D-in-L is a retired Danish PM.
        Kinnock's pensions are thing of wonder.
        Only the fragrant Glenys is no longer a burden on the taxpayer by virtue of being dead.

    3. What the hell has anything got to do with that (polite)
      thing called Kinnock ?
      Only famous for falling over on a beach.

    4. Lord Pillock's family has so much tax-payer funded income that he has become completely deranged. He makes me want to vomit – we need to have a sick bag when we hear or see the windbag.

      In France if you use private medical care or private education you do not lose your entitlement to what you have already paid in your taxes or compulsory state insurance schemes.

      Pillock in favour of Pilfering from the public!

        1. I have vague memories that a Spanish (?) accountant in his office started uncovering some corking cases of corruption.
          She was out of the door before you could say "Elizabeth Filkin".

          2. I tried writing a letter to Kinnock when he was in the EU (Brussels) to complain about the EU accounts not being signed off. It was impossible to find an address but even though any competent postman would have been able to track him down, the letter was returned to sender.

          3. And Paul van Buitenen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_van_Buitenen

            "He has been named 'European of the Year' by Reader's Digest magazine and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He donated his prize money to a fund in the Netherlands for helping other whistleblowers and in 1999 he wrote a book which reveals the whole story – followed by a sequel in 2004. The second book only came out in Dutch and German. An English version risked causing trouble with Commissioner Neil Kinnock."

          5. Dis a U-turn on EEC/EU membership.

            “It’s amusing to remember, however, that it was not always so in their household. Forty-one years ago, Neil Kinnock was a leading figure in the campaign for Britain to vote to leave the then European Economic Community. He believed then that it threatened British jobs and industry.Now, he is vigorously promoting the opposite view. So what could he possibly have seen on the EU gravy train — which has enriched his family by many millions of pounds — to make him change his mind?”

    1. I had 3 perfectly reasonable comments removed yesterday! Criticising the DT policy is apparently a big no-no!

  16. 410796+ up ticks,

    Withdraw the welfare magnet, dramatic fall to net zero
    in illegals, trouble many would see with that is the fact
    that the treacherous arse would, in short shift, fall out of the lab/lib/con coalition party.

    Dt,
    Tuesday 5 August: Without real deterrence, any plan to tackle illegal migration will fail

    Does "real deterrence"= bloodshed ? it WILL be forced on decent folk anyway, we are being forced out as ALL will eventually agree on being told "you are allowed to take one small suitcase".

    1. If you were an illegal immigrant where would you choose to live?

      1. Calais Migrant Camp
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/814f57d4e7bb9f36e7b45bd50a6ab2027a324a0e3dc2cdbecbf0ac7f17d37ad2.png or
      2. A luxurious hotel in the UK?
      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c855c6a49f0ba71674a27728a230ac58d81e46b2871c40c22abe87ad0dff95aa.png
      Facilities offered in the UK + Free board and lodging, Free medical and dental care, Free trips and activities and Free pocket money.

  17. Morning all 🙂😊
    Lovey sunny start high UV, after storm Floris glowball warming warning must be back on the adgenda. 😏
    We already know, there is no plan at all to tackle the Invasion it's been happening for more than 15 years already.
    Belgium has now more foreign nationals with their feet under the table than their own Belgium people.
    Europe has been decimated. Except of course Hungary who have not allowed any Invasion at all and are now suffering from suggested racist abuse from the other political idiots who have allowed it.

  18. Good Morning!

    Today, in Secrecy and Power: The Constitutional Dangers of Super-Injunctions, FSB discusses the dangers, obvious and hidden, of these potentially tyrannical legal instruments now being used by government, as in their Afghan people smuggling racket that brought us Taliban fighters. What else are they hiding under these sinister legal devices?

    Paul Sutton's Drenching Arms series of serious issues in prose and verse, with the hero Raven finding magic and rebirth in rubbish dumps and landfills is one to linger on, and the madness of the Cultural Revolution experienced by Zhang Yingyue, then a teenage girl in Beijing when she risked all to listen to those fearless voices of reason and freedom, the BBC and Voice of America, in From Freedom's Whispers to Tyrant’s Tools: How the BBC and VOA Lost Their Sou l . She now laments their decline into a stultifying woke orthodoxy she finds every bit as dangerous as Mao's lunacy.

    Energy Watch: Over the last 24 hours: Britain's electric power was sourced from Gas, 14.6%; Solar, 6.2%: Wind 49.9%; Imports, 11.4%; Biomass, 3.1%; Nuclear 11.9% and Miscellaneous, 3%.

  19. Good morning all,

    Breezy , fresh drying weather .. no sign of any rain .. 17c.

    Moh mowed the sticking out bits of the very dry lawn .. and I watered the hydrangea !

    What do you think of this letter , girls .. ?

    SIR – As a child I did not like the crust on toast. My mother would therefore break the crusts up and soak them in my morning cup of tea. Once softened they were put on a plate and sprinkled with sugar. I would eat them all.

    She called them “fish”.

    Jason Bevan
    Lydney, Gloucestershire

          3. Sue ,

            They are beautiful kind looking lads , and I do hope their pathway in life is smooth and successful .

            I suspect they are pretty smart and switched on ?

          4. Oh yes! They’re going to be 5 tomorrow and are very excited! They’re bright and smart and very active, noisy and nosy, can ride the bikes they’re going to get for their birthday already – no stabilisers! A real joy and all the worry of them being 7 weeks premature and tiny, has disappeared! Our other 3 are pretty spectacular as well – but I’m not at all biased!!😂

  21. They sent a taxi for my daily hospital trip.

    I think they do it at least once each course so that the patient sees how much they are costing the health services here. One doesn't get charged, thank goodness.

    It came to 270 euros for the round trip, ie 5400 for the course of treatments.

        2. But the taxi company will send only one person (the driver), not two, and the costs associated with anything health-service related are horrible.

          2. They stopped doing them here when they saw the research on how disastrous yours had turned out.

          3. I think we might have noticed others during a recent visit from across the channel.

          4. Anyone with a requirement for regular prescribed treatments may be eligible.
            You pay to get to and from the individual consultant's appointments but once a course is recommended you apply to the doctor for a transport chit. One issued you then organise the transport with the local ambulance company.
            I got exactly the same services for my cardio-rehab.

    2. I wonder if he counts a Paki-Mus gang of ten who have raped numerous young girls numerous times as just one case, or even as just ten cases.

      I'm sure he would say the rapists were known to victims, have been raped so often by the perpetrators.

    3. Well of course the overwhelming majority of offenders would be British-born. From an AI search – In England and Wales, the 2021 census data indicates that 81.7% of the population identifies as White, while 18.3% belong to other ethnic groups, including Asian, Black, Mixed, and Other. The largest non-white ethnic group is Asian, making up 9.3% of the population.

      What these apologists avoid mentioning is the per capita figures for offenders.

    4. He's not getting a lot of support! Most have twigged that "British-born" is not the same as ethnically British, and also that this apologist for "grooming gangs" avoids the per capita figures!

  23. Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at St Pancras station
    Far-Right activist detained at Luton airport in relation to incident that left man with ‘serious’ injuries
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/04/tommy-robinson-arrested-alleged-assault-at-st-pancras/

    The Politicians, the Police and the MSM are so determined to lock up Stephen Yaxley-Lennon that they are quite happy to fabricate evidence against him. We are told so many lies by the PTB at the moment that there is very little reason for us to trust anything we are told about him.

    Of course there are no comments allowed under this article but there is an invitation to express your views but – surprise, surprise – this does not work!

    Wait a moment – I seem to have forgotten to add that Stephen Yaxley-Lennon uses the alias of Tommy Robinson.

    2. The JWK is a 'Windsor', remind me, why did Princess Elizabeth oblige Philip to adopt her surname in 1947?

      2. I think it was a government decision, not hers. Bit close to the end of WWII to have someone from the house of Glucksburg married to a future queen of England. Once they were engaged, he became a British cititzen and changed his name to Mountbatten, a thinly Anglicized version of Battenberg.

  24. Morning, all Y'all.
    Effin freezing this morning. From 30C to 13C in a few days, and I'm supposed to be outside, painting!
    Seems someone in Netherlands has been accessing my credit card, so card cancelled, bank notified, but the bank's attitude is "what do you want us to do about it? Your problem!" so I have given them the finger, and bought myself a VPN with security, to hopefully prevent any hacking of my data.
    So, I'm currently well pi$$ed off.
    Grr!

    1. I have two credit cards, one of which I use solely for online purchases, the other for everyday shopping (I settle the bill in full for each card every month, so don't actually use the credit facility). If one is compromised, I can use the other temporarily. It also makes it easier to check each bill each month and spot if there are any suspect transactions.

      1. I used to do that, but now I either pay cash for everyday purchases or use my debit card.

      1. When I got the bill, there were two entries from Rotterdam. Searched for the company and they don't apparently exist – and it's been well over a decade since I was last in Rotterdam, so I didn't buy anything in person (let alone the makeup they allege that I bought).

        1. Try First Direct? think it was the first online bank an offshoot of HSBC. Has a good reputation.

    6. Is your bank not covered by similar legislation that we have. If my card is used fraudulently the bank immediately reimburses the money.

      The last time it happened someone tried to withdraw £500. The fraud team called me and told me to cut up the card and they would send me another. While on the phone to them they witnessed another attempt for £250 which they also blocked.

      1. Some years ago, my debit card was phished for a small amount.
        The bank spotted that the item (some sort of online game) was so out of character that they blocked it and warned me. The main inconvenience was waiting for a replacement card.
        Full marks to the bank.

        1. It's why i have two debit cards. So if one goes bang i can still use the other. My main stash is with another building society with no card attached.

    7. We have a couple of garages around Colchester where I only ever pay cash.
      Fortunately, there are plenty more to choose.

  25. Morning about to go boating but here is a BTL Comment about the European Court of Justice (not sure if all the points are true….):

    1. 🛑 The ECJ Is Not Just a Court — It’s a Political Weapon

    The ECJ functions less like a neutral court and more like an ideological enforcer for the European Commission, WEF-aligned NGOs, and globalist agendas.

    It systematically overrides national constitutions and parliaments, especially when states try to uphold:

    Traditional marriage
    Border controls
    National education policies
    Pro-life laws
    Christian cultural identity
    EU law takes “primacy” over national law. But this doctrine was invented by the ECJ itself—not democratically approved by any referendum.

    📌 No national constitution ever explicitly ceded this level of sovereignty to an unelected foreign tribunal.

    2. 🧠 The ECJ Enables Globalist Technocratic Control

    The ECJ acts as a legal engine for transnational technocracy, interpreting vague EU rules in ways that:

    Enforce climate lockdowns, emissions quotas, and “green” taxes.
    Support central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) through digital ID infrastructure.
    Justify mass biometric surveillance, “hate speech” policing, and AI regulatory compliance.
    Weaponize anti-disinformation policies that criminalize dissent from mainstream narratives.
    🧩 Example:

    Judgments have allowed mass data collection by intelligence agencies in collaboration with Big Tech, overriding member state privacy laws (e.g., Schrems II case).

    3. 🧨 The ECJ Protects Freemasonic and NGO Networks

    The ECJ has:

    Blocked investigations into corruption within the EU Commission itself.
    Refused to allow proper national audits of Soros-funded NGOs or gender ideology funding.
    Sided with LGBT and abortion lobbies against member states with Christian laws (e.g., Poland, Hungary).
    🧩 Real control lies with:

    European Round Table of Industrialists
    Open Society Foundations
    ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations)
    European Freemasonic Lodges with UN/EU influence
    📌 The ECJ legitimizes their control by declaring any resistance “incompatible with EU values.”

    4. 🕳️ The ECJ Undermines the Christian Order through Legal Inversion

    The ECJ legal philosophy follows a Kantian-Hegelian relativism — not Thomistic natural law. Its judgments reflect:

    Moral subjectivism
    Anti-subsidiarity
    Inversion of hierarchy (individual over family, state over God)
    🧩 It pushes:

    Gender self-ID
    “Reproductive rights” (abortion, IVF)
    Denial of parental authority in education
    Restrictions on homeschooling, speech, and faith-based hiring
    5. 🚫 It Silences and Censors Its Critics

    Judges and lawyers critical of the ECJ are marginalized or defunded.
    Member state leaders challenging ECJ authority (like Viktor Orbán) face sanctions, asset freezes, and media smear campaigns.
    Pro-life and Catholic lawyers are often de-platformed from EU legal conferences and denied academic publishing opportunities.
    ⚠️ The ECJ serves the new “Digital Inquisition” — silencing dissent in the name of “rule of law.”

    1. Sounds about right. I am a Freemason, though, and the ECJ hasn’t protected me in any way shape or form.

        1. I’ll let you know when I land there, Alec x (btw how’s your weather, Storm whatever it’s called?)

  26. Morning everyone. I am here to while away the unforgiving minute until the fuel arrives. The sky is that rich purplish blue black that betokens a downpour.

    It seems people are still maintaining the fiction that there is a plan to stop the boats. You can fool some of the people…

    1. We had a spectacular downpour yesterday evening.
      The outside of the Noddy car looks all spangley.
      The inside ….. not so much. I hate hoovering, let alone working round car seats and general gubbins.

      3. No rain here ..

        Nothing but a little bit of Cornish type claggy drizzle yesterday ..

        Good for the farmers , I watered the garden last night .. hydrangeas were drooping , and so were the crocosmia and cosmos and everything else , ah yes and the Japanese Anemone is flagging badly .

        1. We had some drizzle yesterday and a brief downpour while I was at Maureen's. It was dry when I walked back home.

    1. Notice here it's apparently GBH, as opposed to the Manchester 2 who I seem to recall were charged with ABH?

      1. Manchester 2 were clearly acting in self defence. They feared for their lives. They said so, so it must be true.

      1. I suppose as a seemingly hot tempered person he's easy to wind up. It would be quite easy for the authorities to send 'a trainee' out to do that, this is probably another set up as the last time was.

    3. Good morning TB and everyone.
      For a GBH trial the PTB wil need a jury, and let's hope that CCTV will show that Tommy R was acting in self-defence. The alleged assailant was not placed in a recovery position, which implies that the attending officers did not believe that he was unconscious at any time.

  28. Labour's Gaza mess is only worsening

    Starmer and Lord Hermer are both lawyers to their fingertips. Yet they have conjured up a policy that is legally incoherent

    Telegraph View
    4th August 2025, 8:10pm BST

    Sir Keir Starmer's Government is digging itself into an ever deeper hole over its plan to recognise Palestine as a state. At home, this cowardly gesture has unleashed a hornets' nest; abroad, it has gratified the butchers of Hamas.

    Supporters of Palestine Action, which was proscribed after its attack on RAF Brize Norton, are calling for mass civil disobedience next Saturday in order to "overwhelm" the police and courts.

    One of their leaders is Moazzam Begg, who spent three years as a detainee in Guantanamo Bay. Speaking in Birmingham at the weekend, Mr Begg told what he called "the resistance" that "we have a massive presence in this city" and must "engage our leaders, our imams, our habits, those in positions of power, to join, there is strength in numbers".

    In 2010 Mr Begg was paid an undisclosed sum in compensation for his time in Guantanamo, reported at the time to be £1m or more. In 2014 he was arrested for Syria-related terrorism offences, although charges were subsequently dropped. Will he now once more face the law? Supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation such as Palestine Action is a criminal offence.

    Meanwhile, those who warned against rewarding Hamas for rape, massacre and hostage-taking have been vindicated. Last week, Basem Naim, one of the terrorist organisation's leaders, exulted in the UK's support for the Palestinian cause: "Victory and liberation are closer than we expected." Hamas is still running Gaza; British recognition of Palestine would hand them a huge propaganda victory.

    Yesterday, the Prime Minister's spokesman refused to say whether such a state would be recognised if Hamas remains in control of Gaza. Downing Street repeats the mantra that "Hamas can have no role in the future governance of Gaza". But it insists that it cannot make recognition conditional on the actions of Hamas, a terrorist group, as the UK does not negotiate with terrorists and such demands would be tantamount to negotiation. Conditions seemingly only apply to democratic states.

    The legal knots in which this Government has tied itself would be comical if the consequences were not so tragic. Starmer and Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, are both lawyers to their fingertips. Yet they have conjured up a policy that is legally incoherent, morally indefensible and pleases nobody.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/04/labour-lawyers-gaza-mess-palestine-recognition

    Mr Begg is back. It's all boiling up nicely…

    1. "—-Starmer's government is digging itself into an ever deeper hole".
      Obviously a one track mind seems to have developed during his life in 'law'.

    2. Moazzam Begg.. as British as مجھے انگریز لوگوں سے نفرت ہے۔

      1. مجھے سور کی کھاد کھانا پسند ہے۔ "Begg states: "for clarification:

  29. Got up the hill to pick blackberries for the freezer and fill a mini-bag with brash for burning, got half way through filling the mini-bag when it chucked it down.
    Came back down the hill and, going into the kitchen, realised the rain had stopped!
    Thought, "Sod it! I'll have a mug of tea as I'm already down here!"

  30. In the words of Matty Taylor regarding TR & the invasion..

    "It will stay this way until you and a million of your mates do something about it".
    Until then.. it will continue. Political arrests and up to 1,000 a day arrivals.

  31. Come to Britain illegally: get free kidney dialysis

    The best of intentions can lead to perverse outcomes

    Charles Moore
    4th August 2025, 5:20pm BST

    The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is quite right to reject criticism for picking up illegal immigrants in distress in the Channel. The charity's task for all its 200 years has been to rescue what the hymn calls "those in peril on the sea", not to ask them where they come from.

    Nevertheless, it is an indictment of government policy that the RNLI is saddled with so much of this work. Through no fault of its own, the RNLI helps the people-smugglers maintain a thriving trade, since the traffickers' customers believe, usually correctly, that they will be saved. Repeated failure by either main party to stop the trade has placed an unfair burden on others.

    Something similar applies to the National Health Service. The way the law interprets its "duty of care" means that the illegality of immigrants does not compromise their right to free treatment. Indeed, they can sometimes jump the queues in which British citizens wait. Except in the case of emergency, this seems wrong. It lengthens those queues for ordinary taxpayers and legal immigrants who pay their dues. It also creates an incentive for more illegals to arrive.

    I recently came across a striking example of this. Inevitably, this is a subject about which no one in the NHS wants to go on the record, so what follows is anecdotal rather than proved. I can only say that I trust my well-informed sources.

    The story is that there have been several recent cases in southern England of illegal immigrants arriving from Middle-Eastern countries and immediately demanding kidney dialysis. The doctor at each migrant centre must refer them to specialist units. The duty of care means that they must be treated at once, regardless of any effect on queues. Free personal translation services are also provided for those who do not speak English.

    Obviously, the sick arrivals are not faking it. Almost equally obviously, they knew they would need the dialysis before they set out on their dangerous journey. Theirs is an extreme example of health tourism.

    The very fact that they could get here so quickly after dialysis in their home countries (treatment normally requires at least two sessions a week) is evidence that the traffickers have reliable systems worked out and a very high chance of outwitting the British authorities and getting people through fast. No doubt they are extra well-paid for this.

    The annual cost of dialysis in Britain is more than £30,000 per patient. Each session lasts three to five hours; bloods also need monitoring, and there are quite frequent complications, so a huge amount of limited clinician and equipment time is consumed by each new patient.

    There is no doubt about the good intentions behind the rules, but it does not seem extreme to suggest that they help pave the way to the hell of overcrowding which is the modern NHS.
    ________________________________________

    For the BBC, does a cat have higher moral status than a Jew?

    In its morning news yesterday, the BBC revealed what it called "an international network that shares online videos of cats and kittens being tortured". This network included British members, it reported. It rightly invited its audience to consider this disgusting.

    In the same bulletin, the BBC also reported another torture video. It was of an Israeli man, Evyatar David, held hostage by Hamas. Emaciated and weak, he was filmed in a tunnel, digging what he described as his own grave. He was pleading for his life.

    The BBC acknowledged that this film might be distressing for the hostage's family but said nothing about the torturer. Indeed, its news report referred to "the publication of two videos", without even naming Hamas as the perpetrator.

    Instead, it brought on Jeremy Bowen, its international editor. He was clear. Over a year ago, he said, Hamas had offered Israel a deal which said: "End the war, leave Gaza, don't come back in and you'll get all the hostages back."

    He made not the faintest suggestion that we might be disgusted by Hamas's bargaining over kidnap victims or by the video. Instead, he strongly implied that Benjamin Netanyahu had been wrong to refuse the Hamas offer.

    The lesson I learnt from these contrasting reports is that, on the BBC, a cat has a higher moral status than a Jew.
    ________________________________________

    We already have a wealth tax: IHT

    There is talk that Labour wants to introduce a wealth tax in the next Budget to help rescue itself from its own profligacy. In the heated discussion about this, it tends to be forgotten that Britain already has a punishing wealth tax, otherwise known as inheritance tax (IHT), which is charged at 40 per cent.

    Even less noticed is the fact that IHT is moving from being a tax solely on the pretty well-off to one that hits the middling sort. This is because the threshold at which it kicks in has been held at £325,000 since 2009 and will now continue at that level until at least 2030. If the threshold had increased with inflation, it would be nearly £520,000 today.

    Not coincidentally, the number of estates (in effect, the heirs of dead people) paying IHT went up 13 per cent last year. Receipts rose to £2.2bn in the first quarter of this year.

    As so often in recent times, what looks like a socialist measure lasted throughout the 14 years of Conservative government which ended last year. As the Tories seem to be in repentant mode at last, should they not catch up with Reform on this issue before it tightens its hold on the rising generation of grandparents?

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/04/come-to-britain-illegally-get-free-kidney-dialysis

    1. "The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is quite right to reject criticism for picking up illegal immigrants in distress in the Channel. The charity's task for all its 200 years has been to rescue what the hymn calls "those in peril on the sea", not to ask them where they come from."

      It's a regular, and more frequent in good weather, pickup that takes them away from its true purpose. What happens when a family out sailing capsizes and the RNLI vessel is heading away to its rendezvous with illegals?

      1. They will tell the family they shouldn't have set sail without prearranged escorts?

      2. When the traffickers rely on the RNLI to land people in Britain, it is a de facto partner to them.

      3. It’s not for people who deliberately put themselves in peril so they can have a free taxi ride to Treasure Island.

  32. Normal, other words. Similar here, you’re much further North I think x are you painting?

      1. He bought a Roomba, not too keen on it myself. Hope you’re wearing your lacy knickers…x cracking day here now, going out with dog, finally.

  33. Oh well.
    Good news for my bank balance.
    Another cowardly institution that will not be getting my money.
    (DT has closed comments. Quelle surprise.)

    The Royal Ballet and Opera has caved in to pro-Palestine activists and cancelled a planned production in Israel.
    A 2026 run of Tosca in partnership with the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv will no longer go ahead because of pressure from staff    .

    1. I expect they are afraid of being firebombed. Not that that would be terrorism related says plod.

      2. That would be fine if they're performing Faust.
        A fitting end to the final scene where the Devil claims him.

        1. I once asked an Irish builder if he knew the difference between a joist and a girder
          “Of course I do”, he replied. “One wrote Ulysses, the other wrote Faust.”

  34. I heard a ghastly thing yesterday – four year olds are now arriving in primary school saying 'alexa, switch the light on' and being confused when the light doesn't go on.
    Also, a very experienced teacher says that their language skills have got noticeably worse. She is constantly required to photograph the children and their work and message it to parents, time that she could have used for actual teaching.
    It is unknown for a parent not to have a smartphone apparently.
    Our society is very unwell…

    1. The other unmentioned issue is children arriving who are not yet fully toilet trained. When all we had were those old nappies, teaching the little ones to use the potty was fairly straightforward, but modern "pull-ups" are really not uncomfortable. And require little to no parental effort.

  37. Was supposed to be going to the gym but got seduced by a tin of G&T and the sun. So thought i’d read something different on PressReader and settled on the Independent. This is the opening paragraph of their editorial on page2. I got no further:

    “There is no situation where an intervention by Nigel Farage won’t make things worse. He has, after all, made a career out of detecting, exploiting and exacerbating people’s grievances and fears, a grim cycle that has delivered electoral success. The man is gifted in his insidious trade, if nothing else…”

    I’m no Farage fan and the second sentence might have a grain of truth. But they won’t convert me with their opener.

    2. Useful fact.
      One of our Danish relatives-in-law has low blood pressure because his heart is enlarged.
      Apparently, he always been into super fitness, exercised like crazy and, as the heart is a muscle, he's over developed it.
      Sit back and chill.

      1. Well her partner can also send the guy ropes – I think he's really into pegging.

  40. That's what a former chief immigration officer said.
    We had greater control of stowaway immigrants when they jumped into lorries bound for the UK compared with those who wade into the channel in French waters where the French police don't want to ger their feet wet.

    Getting your feet wet in French waters is a far greater deterrent for French police than for immigrants who've paid a fortune to travel in a small boat to the land of the free meal ticket.

    Edit: first post wasn't sent as WiFi link changed over from 2.4MHz to 5MHz.

    1. Who provides the fortune that they pay. If they're in possession of a fortune, they can buy a good life for themselves at home. If they had nothing to hide, a ticket to Heathrow or St Pancras costs a lot less. They're being provided with the money and schooled in concealing their identity. But by whom?

      1. The family only needs to get one through and eventually they can all come here legally. So they club together.
        Another way is to promise to pay. Work in the black economy and then pay the trafficker off.

        The charities collude with the migrants. As does our government.

      2. Good question.
        It would be interesting to know what AI can come up with for an answer. The Government could clear its debt.

  42. Well, the Envy of the World came up trumps. My consultation was swift, efficient and reassuring. I had a mammogram – I had NO idea just how uncomfortable and awkward that is. Then a scan. Advice is: no cancer just "Gynecomastia " – Take painkillers and live with it.

    The MR, too, was seen efficiently and had her problem diagnosed and medication prescribed.

    Everyone who each of us saw was kindly, gentle, efficient and knowledgeable. Full of confidence and reassurance.

    For once, a good story to tell.

    1. That's good news. I've had gynocomastia myself. That machine don't half pinch.

      As we men age the testosterone levels drop. Hence gyneocomastica. You can do replacement hormone therapy but one of the side effects is it makes you randy.

      1. That must be what the pigeons in my garden live on. Where can I get some? Asking for a friend.

        1. You can buy testosterone supplements on amazon but i would warn Mrs Beans before you
          do !

    2. Been there, done that, number of occasions. Well done Bill, hope you learn to live with it. Ibuprofen best pain killer for me. Good luck.

  43. TR released at 1am & back into society on bail. Lefties in panic.
    Footage supports TR claim of self-defence.

    Will they release full footage? Nah.
    Trust me.. if the video had been a slamdunk against TR he would have been hanged by now. So no charges.

        1. It is saying the quiet bit out loud. As in "Islam is the Religion of Peace. If you deny this, your head will be chopped off"

          Or, my favourite meme at the (seemingly peak-wank time, which drove the LGBTQFP brigade nuts:: "Islam is right about women"

      1. 410796+ up ticks,

        Afternoon KJ,
        They started four decades ago, THEY are the main opposition, the political
        enemy enemas.

    1. G'day William, cricket over (no pun intended) you're unblocked – thanks for your patience :o)

    2. Knew it would be a terrier. One of mine once went down a badger sett, no calling or whistling made her come out…finally came out of a different entrance/exit. On holiday in Scotland one time, came across a chap on a day trip – his terrier disappeared, took his det'ls if dog ever re-appeared but it never did. They get stuck if a soil/sand fall, or sometimes in tree/plant roots. Anyhow enough of that, why was Cumberbatch buried for four days?

      1. "…why was Cumberbatch buried for four days?"

        Have another read of the article…

          1. The first two series were rather good. It then disappeared up its own fundament with too much clever-dickery.

          2. oh in that case….off to see pipistrelles soon, few in number this year sad to say….btw, how many hours daylight do you have this time of year, Alec?

          3. about 18/19 Kate depending on the cloud cover, in June it’s around 23. Years ago I played a round of golf at Lossiemouth teeing off at midnight on 21st June x

  47. 410796+up ticks,

    We would never let it happen, same as we would never let rotherham happen, this sort of fear in many eyes will say it puts paid to any of our guest's being potential voters, then where will the voting pattern be ?

    Many have to see evidence first, real in your face evidence as in bodies, then there will be heated discussion followed by more discussion then the issue will pop up now and again.
    Next odious issue will receive the same coating of looking at and discussing and so it has been continuing to go on for decades.
    until it is realised that Action is the antidote to despair.

    https://x.com/ActivePatriotUK/status/1952697723670483119

    1. I really hope it happens. Not wanting anyone hurt.. it's just best to bring the whole shebang to a boil.
      Little known fact; Axel Rudakubana stabbed one of the girls 127 times and tried to behead her.. I heard.. could be wrong.

      2. He allegedly uttered the magic words as he performed the atrocities (a detail provided by witnesses that was immediately suppressed by the usual forces of control)

  48. THREE Dorset Labour Party stalwarts have left the party in a protest over a series of issues.

    Former Portland mayor Carralyn Parkes, Berny Parkes and former Weymouth and Portland Borough councillor Tony Prowse may now be joining the newly formed party being set up by MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.

    The trio, in a shared statement, are critical of South Dorset Labour MP Lloyd Hatton who they say was "imposed" on the local party and list a series of problems they have with the current Labour Party.

    Their resignations took place at midnight on August 4/5th.

    The statement from the three Portland says that it is with "a degree of sadness" that they are leaving the Labour Party which they have served with the best of their abilities with the aim of building a fairer society.

    "We have the utmost respect for the achievements of local Labour activists; however, the national Labour government has abysmally failed this country, the electorate, and those who need them the most.

    "This government has failed to tackle child poverty; they have attacked pensioners and cut benefits to the disabled.

    "Through foreign policy, they have been complicit in the massacre of thousands of Palestinian children, and even locally, government ministers have given the go ahead for the Portland Waste Incinerator.

    "We were concerned when Lloyd Hatton (MP, South Dorset) was imposed by the national Labour Party as our General Election candidate without having to face the due process of selection by the local membership.

    "We were right to be concerned; our MP has failed to stand up for the people of South Dorset and has been an unapologetic supporter of Keir Starmer’s government whilst they have:

    · Removed the winter fuel allowance for pensioners

    · Continued the 2-child ceiling on family benefits

    · Abandoned the WASPI women

    · Implemented disability cuts

    · Inadequately responded to Gaza

    "Keir Starmer, his government, and our own MP, Lloyd Hatton, have completely lost their moral compass, which has led not only to our decision to resign from the Labour Party but also to the decimation of Labour’s membership in South Dorset." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001485

    "We are at a time in history where there is a fundamental shift in political attitudes. Already Jeremy Corbyn MP and Zarah Sultana MP are forming a new political party and mobilising people in their hundreds of thousands into a force that will fight for the young, the old, the sick, the disabled, the poor, the oppressed, for families, for communities, and for all the peoples of South Dorset, of this nation, and far beyond. We intend to be part of this force."

    The statement lists the offices previously held by the trio which includes chair and secretary of the South Dorset Labour Party and as councillors and other public posts in Portland and Weymouth.
    Speaking this morning Carralyn Parkes said the three had reached the point where they felt they could not continue.
    "It's been so disappointing. We had high hopes but the only thing Labour has actually done is make ten million pensioners colder," she said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001485

    Ooh er , what a kerfuffle !

    3. What’s the matter? Labour insufficiently anti semitic? What’s fair about Labour punishing me with taxes and net zero lunacy because I have worked hard and not splurged it up the wall? Can’t afford more than two children? Don’t have them. If you can’t get your head around contraception (I doubt very much abstinence would figure anywhere) Labour has conveniently allowed abortion up to birth.

      1. Labour parachuted a chap in from Camden , but whose parents own a fish and chip shop in Weymouth ..

        He won the South Dorset seat by 1,000 votes .. our old reliable but quiet Tory Richard Drax was ousted
        Reform and the Lib dumbs were neck and neck .. and took over 8,000 votes each .

        South Dorset is small and rural .. Dorset lost many Tory seats , and the deterioration in Bournemouth and parts of Poole is plain to see . Boundary divisions are a damned nuisance .

        Jeremy Corbyn has a following because he regularly turns up at the Tolpuddle Martyrs rally .. he has hijacked everything , but appears to be a beardy old socialist of a different dimension who Labour followers love , especially the young!

        My politicking days are done and dusted , I did enough for the Tories over the decades .. and the Brexit thing was the last stand I took .

        We are being betrayed because Socialism has an ugly veneer .. our freedom of speech days are numbered .

        1. People think socialism means taking care of poorer people – they don't realise what communism is.

        1. When it was first legalised I said it was the thin end of the wedge and there would be mission creep. Unfortunately, how right I was.

          1. 24 weeks are the supposedly legal limit (1967 Abortion Act..1967!) I’d limit it to half that, or even more. Modern pregnancy tests will tell you within a few days. Abortion Act needs updating, I’ll vote for the first MP campaigning on that, no matter their party, or how wrong I think they are on other issues.

          2. I could feel mine moving at 17 weeks – how could anyone kill a live child at that stage?

        2. Before any vote on this government should have been forced to watch a filmed process, in detail, a termination of pregnancy up to birth. And then the vote on this abhorrent matter should have taken place. How can they reliably vote if not informed on what is entailed?

    1. Absuive? Wot about your giant sized mocking effigy of an American president?
      What about refusing to honour the Oval Office at a banquet?

      Take him round to see the fifteen active rape centres above your London kebab shops.
      "Sorry I don't understand what you mean.. can you define grooming gang?"

    2. Absuive? Wot about your giant sized mocking effigy of an American president?
      What about refusing to honour the Oval Office at a banquet?

      Take him round to see the fifteen active rape centres above your London kebab shops.
      "Sorry I don't understand what you mean.. can you define grooming gang?"

    4. Trump is basically anti-Muslim, in that Muslim countries were the main constituents of earlier "no entry" lists. Being shown Islamic and gay "culture" would be a definite trigger for him. An antisemitic march or pro Palestinian demo would tip him well over the edge. Should be fun.

      1. I don’t think The Donald is alone in being anti muslim. Quite a few of us here are less than enamoured of their barbaric mindset.

  51. Trial of suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones over riots speech will take place on Monday 11th August. What justice will he receive?
    Context

  52. Been busy for a few hours dealing with our bumper crop of greengages…… picked what I could reach standing on a chair – the rest will need a ladder. Packed them into boxes for the freezer – should keep us going for a while.

      1. They're good this year – and I only found one maggot so far. A bit of wasp damage but most are quite unblemished.

          1. There was lots of blossom on our remaining apple tree- the apples are pretty and red but spongy and not good to eat. I found a lump of pork in the freezer so will chuck some apples in with that for dinner.

          2. Sounds great! I never know what I’m going to eat…look in the fridge, the cupboard, the fruit bowl – throw something together. Not a foodie 😀

          3. It is very interesting you say that, KJ. Down here people have been remarking (and I have noticed) that there are more wasps than for years and years. How unpleasant they make outdoor eating (I also have the delight of being allergic to their stings, so whilst not actually frightened of them, I am wary, as they could kill me in the wrong circs)

            On another note, last year our ancient apple trees bore one (ONE) fruit between them. This year they are laden

            Funny old world.

  53. Wordle No. 1,508 3/6

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    Heron for Birdie Three!

    1. Birdie, no par, no bogey.
      Another case of too many options

      Wordle 1,508 5/6

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    2. Par today.

      Wordle 1,508 4/6

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    3. After two lots of 5 back to 3

      Wordle 1,508 3/6

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    4. I seem to be swinging between extremes of good and bad luck at the moment.
      Three options, took three guesses….. Bogey…..Bugger……

      Wordle 1,508 5/6

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    5. Birdie here. Elimination left me with a choice of two last letters. I chose correctly for a nice change.

      Wordle 1,508 3/6

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  54. Curious thing. The "condition"* I have, of which I had never heard until this morning. The consultant chap told me that, this very day at the same clinic, he had had two other men – exactly my age – with the same thing. How odd is that?

    I can't spell it!

      1. "Bearable discomfort" So long as I don't bang it or lie on it – it is not a problem.

          3. 🤣🤣🤣 sorry, couldn't help it. Me neither. Everyone I see jogging wear expressions that do not encourage me to join their ranks. Horses for courses, I suppose.

    3. Apparently is is a known symptom of cirrhosis of the liver. That's the limit (and probably beyond) of my knowledge of the subject.

      They can prescribe for it per Dr Google.

  55. That's me for today. Despite the sunshine – a very strong westerly wind made it feel really cold – especially when traipsing for miles (well, it seemed like it) around the hospital grounds.

    Feel very relieved. I knew it couldn't really be cancer – but the thought niggles away in the small hours. The MR, likewise – both for me and for herself.

    So I'll bang a saucepan for ten seconds.

    Have a smasing evening.

    A demain (for us, a "day of leisure a resort" – and a loaf to bake).

      1. All asylum seekers should complete this test before moving to stage two.

        Hang gliding without a glider

        1. 54,498, for all the good it will do! The online safety petition is heading for the half million!

      1. If you’re around Jules, I’ve had to lift a smallish hedgehog with an injured front right foot which was eating cat food off the lawn! It’s far too light for it to be out and it appeared to be very hungry. It’s now in a deep cardboard box with food and water, and a blanket, in the utility room. It also has a full tick on its ear which I’m about to remove! What else can I do? Can I use antiseptic?

        1. Well done! Only just seen…… there is an antiseptic suitable for hogs but its name escapes me at the moment. Saw your later post first – you’ve done the right thing. Metacam is good.

          1. Thank you! I used Hibiscrub on veterinary advice! My daughter asked me to weigh the hog so I sent her the weight and she said it was very small! ‘Is it gerbil-sized’? I replied ‘more like a Guinea pig’! She’d read 677g as 67g! Anyway it’s pooed a lot, I’ve cleaned the box and put in more water and food. I’ll take it out about 9 o’clock and see how it goes.

          2. Hibiscrub is good – I know we’ve used that one. 677gm is ok for a young adult – if it’s well and fed you can release it – is the paw ok now? Or does it need a bit of care for a day or two?

    4. Signed it but without much hope..have signed a number afore, all sank without trace 🙁

      1. There is only one thing that wouldn't be ignored but that is some way off. People can protest as much as they like but no notice will be taken by Starmer&Co.

    1. A BBC investigation has exposed the French and UK operations of a powerful and violent smuggling gang taking people across the English Channel in small boats.

      A reporter, posing as a migrant wanting to cross, helped us gain unprecedented access to the smugglers' notorious forest hideout in northern France – an area plagued by armed battles between rival gangs.

      Secret filming at a major UK railway station also captured associates of the gang collecting cash payments to secure migrant places on illegal Channel crossings.

      Two men met us on separate occasions on the busy concourse at Birmingham's New Street Station to collect envelopes containing hundreds of pounds.

      Multiple sources have described how gang leaders, who keep one step ahead of the authorities by changing mobile phone numbers and the gang's name, subjected their henchmen and migrants to violent beatings.

      We have managed to identify three men – Jabal, Aram and al-Millah – all Iraqi-Kurds, who are believed to lead the outfit, which is one of the main groups in northern France transporting people to the UK by small boat.

      We have also come across other senior figures, including a man called Abdullah, whom we witnessed shepherding groups of migrants towards boats. Another gang member, Besha, who had escorted migrants in France, took a small boat to the UK himself, we learned, ending up in a migrant hostel in West Yorkshire having claimed asylum.

      The findings are the culmination of months of undercover fieldwork and the creation of multiple fake identities to engage with the smugglers. We have been able to build a detailed picture of the gang's tentacle-like structure and the ways it has successfully evaded the police.

      Our investigation began in April 2024, after we witnessed French police trying to stop the gang from launching an inflatable boat into the Channel. In the chaos, five people were trampled to death onboard, including a 7-year-old girl named Sarah.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly48nmmzdro

      1. Just a thought.
        Why can't we use assassination squads for these people, who are clearly at war with us?

          3. "Her" poem

            The life that I have
            Is all that I have
            And the life that I have
            Is yours.

            The love that I have
            Of the life that I have
            Is yours and yours and yours.

            A sleep I shall have
            A rest I shall have
            Yet death will be but a pause.

            For the peace of my years
            In the long green grass
            Will be yours and yours and yours.

  62. Vengeance: JD Vance Has A Bold Plan to FREE the UK & EU… (What We Know So Far).

    Visa bans for OffComrade.

  63. Vengeance: JD Vance Has A Bold Plan to FREE the UK & EU… (What We Know So Far).

    Visa bans for OffComrade.

    1. Hmm. just bought 'Hillbilly Elegy', not started reading it yet..anyone else has, and read it, be interested to read any and all reviews, thanks x

      1. Govt is currently deleting or suppressing the following:
        war footage.
        protest material.
        investigative journalism.
        grooming gang.
        some parliamentary debate.
        some news outlets blocked.
        X & Reddit aggressively filtering.
        stunts.
        adult sites.

        Labour has issued a veiled threat against petition signers.
        "Misinformation is now a crime."
        So far 99.7% of deleted comments were legally permissible.. however govt deleted anyway. X under investigation.

        Even Xi Jinping is shocked.

        2. Starmer says the TRUTH is misinformation and fake news.

          So beware of telling the TRUTH – it could well end you in jail.

    1. Saw a couple of black men in town this afternoon, gabbling away to each other in a foreign (I e not English or Welsh) language. It’s making me racist because before I would have ignored it, now I think ‘eff off back to where that’s the norm’.

      1. How can we be racist in our own country , I don't understand it ?

        Decades ago , Moh and I and English friends entered a remote Scottish hotel to have a drink at their bar , it was decades ago .. and some very stroppy boozed up Scottish locals then started yelling at us .. "Sassenachs oot .. oot oot ".. it was quite frightening .. we were in a state of shock, they were the same colour as us we fled as they were jeering at us and hammering the wooden bar ..

        They clearly didn't like the English .

        We were up near Cape Wrath , at Durness at the time ..

        1. There are several English people who live in Brittany. Many of them hardly speak any French at all after having been here for many years.

          1. I accept people find other's languages difficult, particularly as they get older, what I object to is that they don't even bother to try.

          2. i cannot imagine living in France and not knowing enough French to survive. The case I forgive is anyone living in the Netherlands as they are almost all fluent in English and speak it better than many Brits – and usually a couple of other langages as well. When we lived there, local cable TV supplied the Nederlands channels, plus BBC and ITV, which people in the office would watch.

          3. There are times when the French can be more “difficult” than others.
            They can get very pernickety about pronunciation, where other people don’t seem to

          4. I participated in a field course in the Netherlands back in 1972, everyone spoke English but with an American accent. Films, you see…

          5. I can't imagine living anywhere and not knowing enough of the language to function. Even on a visit I try to mug up on the basics.

          6. Perhaps you should hold French courses for these people as well as your 'A' level students? A year round stream of income?

        2. I have Scottish ancestry going back many centuries. I used to be very proud of that ancestry.
          I now dislike the attitude of a significant number of Scots to anything Engleesh.
          The final straw was the adoption of that anti English anthem at sporting events: Weeds of Scrote Land.
          To Hell with them, I now support almost anyone who is playing against Scotland. Even Wales.

          1. I have Welsh ancestry. Three years at a Welsh university turned me completely English!

          2. Wales voted for Brexit, along with the English in 2016. It has endeared the Welsh to me ever since.

        3. I think this has got worse since the SNP came to power. (Now, still looking for the £600k, I think?)

      2. Even ignoring it makes one racist, Conway. Better by far to be a racist than to be a traitor to one's own people/tribe.

  65. Comment of the day..
    To protect children online but fail at protecting them offline.

  66. Good evening, all. Busy earlier, relaxing now and finding time to comment.

    How's the 1.5 million house building programme progressing?
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c61666490eb27b91f63335b9965b94fbacd3619bd3a1e949d4d21566bace9930.png

    AI Overview
    In England, new build dwelling starts for the year ending March 2025 were estimated at 113,220, a 17% decrease compared to the previous year. Completions were estimated at 152,100, a 5% decrease. These figures indicate a slowdown in housebuilding activity compared to the previous year.

    Confirmation coming from ready mixed concrete demand?

    AI Overview
    Ready-mix concrete demand in the UK has fallen to a 62-year low, with sales dropping to 2.7 million cubic meters in Q2 2025, according to the Mineral Products Association (MPA). This decline is attributed to a combination of factors including weak economic growth, cost pressures, planning delays, and project cancellations, impacting overall construction activity and business confidence. The last time Britain's annual concrete volume was this low was in 1963, according to Construction News.

    Housing a burgeoning population appears to be a problem at the moment and the prospects for the future do not too good. What solution to this growing problem does Starmer's government have in its toolbox to overcome this looming disaster?

    Well…

    Is this one probable solution or is the comment BS? However, if there are moves afoot to move settled people to accommodate immigrant families due to an overall shortage of homes where then are the smaller homes for those displaced people to move in to? A question that the government and its agents must answer.

    BTL doesn't fully support the post.

    https://x.com/NHPUKOfficial/status/1952465984935411731

    1. From what I've seen, the fields surround the KtK residence have done their fair share.

      1. And we’re not happy. Threat of further building is real, even stretching to the bottom of my garden in the future.

      1. …."she had sexual relations with me, depending on what the meaning of what is, is…."???

    2. I'm betting they do one of two things either "I do not recall", a la Ronald reagan, or "I will exercise my rights under the 5th amendment to the US constitution".

      Anyway, why the Clintons? It was Trump who was Epstein's long term side kick. And Trump is on the record as saying, "Jeffrey likes them young. Very young"

      1. Why the Clintons?
        Perhaps because they are the second or third most corrupt US political family after the Bidens and the Obamas?

        1. Not a patch on certain members of Congress. And the funny thing is for all his obvious faults, Clinton is the only recent president who managed to get the deficit down. Every president since has added to it, using various excuses, and of course Trump is in process of making it even worse. I can remember when the GOP wanted to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution as being necessary for the long term health of the country. Now it's the GOP who are spending money like water. As Alice said, we are definitely not in Kansas any more.

        2. Not a patch on certain members of Congress. And the funny thing is for all his obvious faults, Clinton is the only recent president who managed to get the deficit down. Every president since has added to it, using various excuses, and of course Trump is in process of making it even worse. I can remember when the GOP wanted to pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution as being necessary for the long term health of the country. Now it's the GOP who are spending money like water. As Alice said, we are definitely not in Kansas any more.

    2. We can safely say that this Person will never look great in jeans.
      Or anybody else's trousers.

  69. Spectator reporting on its, and Douglas Murray’s victory in a libel case brought by Mohammed Hegab.
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-spectator-and-douglas-murray-win-defamation-claim-brought-by-mohammed-hijab/

    Someone on the Sceptic posted a link to the actual verdict and highlighted the final paragraph:

    “The defendants [the Spectator and Murray] are each responsible for the article, which conveys the following meaning:

    [Murray wrote:a] “The claimant is a street agitator who has whipped up a mob on London’s streets, addressed an anti-Israel protest in inflammatory terms, and exacerbated frayed tensions (which had already spilled over into public disorder) between Muslim and Hindu communities in Leicester by whipping up his Muslim followers including by ridiculing Hindus for their belief in re-incarnation and describing Hindus as pathetic, weak and cowardly in comparison to whom he would rather be an animal.”

    … The publication has not caused, and is not now likely to cause, serious harm to the claimant’s reputation. In any event, it is substantially true, and it is not materially inaccurate. The claims are, accordingly, dismissed.”

  70. Spectator reporting on its, and Douglas Murray’s victory in a libel case brought by Mohammed Hegab.
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-spectator-and-douglas-murray-win-defamation-claim-brought-by-mohammed-hijab/

    Someone on the Sceptic posted a link to the actual verdict and highlighted the final paragraph:

    “The defendants [the Spectator and Murray] are each responsible for the article, which conveys the following meaning:

    [Murray wrote:a] “The claimant is a street agitator who has whipped up a mob on London’s streets, addressed an anti-Israel protest in inflammatory terms, and exacerbated frayed tensions (which had already spilled over into public disorder) between Muslim and Hindu communities in Leicester by whipping up his Muslim followers including by ridiculing Hindus for their belief in re-incarnation and describing Hindus as pathetic, weak and cowardly in comparison to whom he would rather be an animal.”

    … The publication has not caused, and is not now likely to cause, serious harm to the claimant’s reputation. In any event, it is substantially true, and it is not materially inaccurate. The claims are, accordingly, dismissed.”

  71. Denmark to tear down Copenhagen’s ‘pornographic’ mermaid statue
    Controversial 13ft Big Mermaid described by critics as ‘a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like’
     https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/05/denmark-copenhagen-pornographic-statue-big-mermaid/
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b42d592c064cd7e2e00fcf2d4062e55009d79d1c3afab57c7fe9d1f25f82de84.png
    Is this pornographic?

    To be honest I prefer women whose nether regions are not scaly and end with a fishy tail.
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/47f060942fd0f4b75fb0bb471d5316829bfc6dc9dbe321fe269ba3145b5f08f0.png

    2. "The world's gone mad!" – Richard, I suspect that this is about to become as much a catchphrase for Elsie Bloodaxe as "You are a Very Silly Sausage, and if you don't behave you will have to go and sit on the naughty step".

    3. As Frankie Howerd (in Up Pompeii) used to say – 'Dont point them at me love, they might go off!'

    4. What I find/found strange was the concept that her embonpoints were oversized.
      They look normal to me.
      My wife's might not be quite as big, (she doesn't weigh 14 tonnes) but hers are similar in shape and position, if slightly smaller.

      1. It's a 13' tall statue. They are going to be a bit bigger than the average actual woman,

        1. Are you sure?
          You live in Yank land, stocked to the rafters with bigger than average wimmin.

          1. But it's a case of width, not height. And yes, we do see some sights. I went to get new glasses recently and the very helpful woman who sorted out the frames, etc., was normal height, but definitely very buxom. Add in a habit of leaning forward across the desk and a plunging neckline, and it was a bit like looking down the Mersey Tunnel…

      1. Well, I don't know what that thing in your photograph is, Maggie,

        Are you aware of something about Rastus that he hasn't shared?

      3. You are right – but this is a new statue.

        I agree with you – I prefer the Little Mermaid.

    8. She's just standing there not engaged in a sex act. Is a nude body now pornographic per se?

    9. She's just standing there not engaged in a sex act. Is a nude body now pornographic per se? The naked and the nude.

      1. This appears twice because it refused to post the first time, but when I clicked on post again it said I had already made the comment although it didn't appear. Hence I added the last sentence.

          2. Nah, too subtle for you, It might have been abstruse had you not been so obtuse.

            sorree, open goal too tempting

    1. Dreadful
      May all those terrorists involved in the action, the planning and the aftermath, rot in Hell.

      1. Sub-human. Many, many animals are kinder to our young, and actively watch out for them.

        1. Most animals kinder to their young too ‘mum. Comes under the heading ‘man’s inhumanity to man’.

    3. Starmer, Macron and Carney are sordid, spiteful, dysfunctional sub-human beings so they don't give a toss.

  75. So where does 1-1 = 22,400?

    The governments one in one out aspirational deal with France to return migrants, estimated at 50 returned a week while 25,000 arrive in a year

    2. The real idiocy, is that those who get returned will be back on the next available boat and those exchanged for them will be settled,.
      Gain two lose none.

  76. The Daily T: Can private schools survive Labour?
    A former headteacher tells Tim Stanley and Cleo Watson about the anxiety parents and teachers are facing after the Government’s tax raid
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/the-daily-t-can-private-schools-survive-labour/

    A couple of BTL comments:

    1.) I went to a preparatory school at 8 followed by a public (i.e private!) school from 13 – 18.

    I taught in independent private schools for 15 years before moving to France where my wife and I run residential intensive "A" level French courses.

    Most teachers in private schools are the sort of people who are resourceful enough to do jobs other than teaching. As a result many of the teachers in private schools will leave teaching when private schools have to close. This will lead to a severe shortage of competent teachers and, yet again, politicians will have let down children with their ideologically envious and spiteful claptrap.


    2,) Every child educated in a private school saves the state the cost to the state of educating that child. The more schools close the more money the state will lose.

    In most civilised countries those who use private schools and private medicine do not lose their entitlement to the things they have paid for with their taxes. If the state wishes to impose VAT on school fees then it should reimburse parents the cost to the state that has been saved by these parents not using the state school system.

    1. Labour just hates anything or anyone who is in any way successful. That extends to children, which is why they went after the 11+ and Grammar schools. An initiative led by an ex-Highgate and Oxford educated minister by the way. And their current attitude to private education is still based on envy.

      Back in the 1950's when I was at school, that attitude was not present. In fact local authorities, even "traditional Labour" authorities, supported the assisted place schemes as they reduced pressure on the council schools. I took advantage of it – or rather my parents did, and I went from state primary into our local independent school until I was just 17, when I escaped with enough A and O levels to deal with anything I might want to do later.

      1. It was a Labour government that initially denied the Empire Windrush permission to dock. The Labour front bench today are liars and thieves and they like their own kind.

  77. I have to admit I'm getting thoroughly fed up with face book. Nearly evertime I open it there is a photograph of that revolting and horrible man who likes to be known as PM.
    I'm getting extremely disappointed with the vast majority of social media.
    I'll be off to bed soon.
    Good night all Nottlers sleep well. 😴

  78. One mini bulk bag of small brash sticks filled and about another bagful still to shift, plus another mini-bag full of larger sticks filled for burning on the house fires.
    Plus some brambles pulled up.
    It's been a somewhat cooler day with frequent showers, some of them heavy, but short lasting.
    And with that, I'm off to bed.

    2. Frequent showers?

      Please believe me that I watered our garden for 1 hour this evening .. and then some more .

      There have been fires on the heathland , arsonists at work, but the poor firemen have been very busy , everything is too dry .

      Good night Bob

      1. Looking up the Via Gellia from here just now and it is noticeable how many dead ash trees are visible up the sides of the valley. Given the amount of detritus lying on the ground under the trees you can guess what one of my fears is!

  79. Allison Pearson
    Our complicit elite is to blame for every sexual assault by an illegal migrant
    It is a fantasy to expect sex-starved men from misogynist cultures to respect our values and our women

    "Coincidentally, a reader in Wiltshire got in touch to report how all those Afghans resettled in a local army camp are getting on. “It’s horrific, Allison,” she said. “The behaviour of the Afghans in Larkhill – loitering around children’s playgrounds, lads “messing” with girls on school buses, human faeces regularly found on dog walks in camp. The GP practice is closed to soldiers one day a week to allow the migrants exclusive access. The reception staff have been handed crib sheets on how to greet Afghans in their own language. They are incensed. ‘Why aren’t the immigrants given crib sheets on how to address us in our own language?’ ”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/05/complicit-elite-blame-for-sex-assault-by-illegal-migrants/

    John Bankhead
    2 min ago
    “The reception staff have been handed crib sheets on how to greet Afghans in their own language.”

    20,000 ‘interpreters’, yea right.

  80. Spy agencies reopen ‘racist’ internship that bans white Britons
    MI5, MI6 and GCHQ offer scheme exclusively to ‘ethnic minority’ and ‘disadvantaged’ candidates for third time

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/

    Britain’s intelligence services have re-opened a summer internship scheme to which white participants cannot apply.

    Started in 2023, the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ Summer Intelligence Internship attracted criticism last year, when it was labelled “racist”.

    It was offered only to young people from a “Black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority background and from a socially or economically disadvantaged background”.

    When the scheme was first advertised for this summer, Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, described it as “racist” and called for it to be axed.

    He said: “I understand the need to encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds, including under-represented minorities.

    “But this is an overtly racist policy and it should be immediately discontinued. It implies it’s impossible for any white person to be deprived or deserving of assistance.”

    Mr Philp leans on a wall on the terrace of the Houses of Parliament for a portrait shot, with the Thames behind him
    Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, labelled the programme ‘racist’ Credit: Nikki Powell
    Claire Coutinho, the shadow energy secretary, said: “Deciding who can do a summer internship scheme based on the colour of their skin is bad enough. To bar patriotic white Britons who want to serve their country, but allow white Irish people, is utterly mad.”

    The scheme states that people from an Irish Traveller background may apply.

    Ms Coutinho continued: “To make matters worse, the security services will also shut you out if you’re a child of a nurse, a cabbie or your dad ran a corner shop, while the child of an £80,000-a-year train driver is eligible.

    “This is state-sponsored discrimination. We should just choose the best people for the job. The Conservatives will defend fairness and stand firmly against ideology replacing competence.”

    However, despite widespread criticism, the scheme will go ahead.

    It will run for 10 or more weeks, depending on the intelligence service, to “increase diversity within our organisations”.

    The advert states that applicants must also be “from a socially or economically disadvantaged background”, which is “currently under-represented in the UK’s Intelligence Services”.

    One former senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer previously said he believed the decision not to allow poor white students to apply was “blatant discrimination”.

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    Tim Davies, who was a squadron leader, said: “Opportunities are being denied to white children, that’s just a fact. They cannot apply just because they are white.”

    He said that the RAF had made a similar mistake when pursuing a recruitment policy, which led to accusations that it had discriminated against white men in its effort to meet “aspirational diversity targets”.

    In 2022, the Ministry of Defence admitted that “despite the best of intentions, some mistakes were made” after reports of an RAF recruitment drive which appeared to favour women and ethnic minority candidates.

    The inquiry followed the resignation of the RAF’s head of recruitment, after she reportedly refused an order to hire more diverse candidates because she believed it was “unlawful”.

    The large post-modernist building sits on the bank of the Thames
    MI6 is one of the intelligence service organisations pushing to hire non-white interns Credit: Mike Kemp/Corbis News
    Earlier this year, The Telegraph reported that an intern hired by GCHQ had stolen secret data in what was described as a national security breach.

    Hasaan Arshad, 25, took his work mobile to a top secret area of the GCHQ building, connected it to a workstation, and was then allowed to take the device home unchallenged.

    He transferred sensitive information to a hard drive linked to his personal computer, and was arrested one month later.

    It was not clear whether Arshad was admitted as an intern through the diversity scheme.

    The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, which is responsible for the Security Services, was contacted for comment.

    David Harris
    59 min ago
    Britain is in the grip of a complete failure of statecraft. We're doomed.

    MP

    Michael Pearce
    1 hr ago
    The protection and safety of the UK and our citizens is far more important than some faceless civil servant being able to tick a diversity box on a form. We seem to be led by people with little intelligence or understanding what their actual job entails.

    Peter UK
    1 hr ago
    A change in legislation is required to either modify or repeal Labour’s Equality Act 2010, the faux Conservatives showed no inclination in this regard, I imagine it’s up to Nigel Farage if he wishes to make this an election issue.

    2. Genuine equality of opportunity never produces equality of outcome, because natural equality doesn’t exist. So equality of outcome has to be engineered by unjust and unfair means. By the exercise of power.

    3. Thing is, they need quantities of bames to infiltrate and monitor the New British people.
      Particularly strong requirement for females, who are less obvious when out on a job.
      Problem then is knowing whether someone is loyal, or a sh*t like George Blake.

  81. Spy agencies reopen ‘racist’ internship that bans white Britons
    MI5, MI6 and GCHQ offer scheme exclusively to ‘ethnic minority’ and ‘disadvantaged’ candidates for third time

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/05/spy-agencies-repeat-internship-mi5-mi6/

    Britain’s intelligence services have re-opened a summer internship scheme to which white participants cannot apply.

    Started in 2023, the MI5, MI6 and GCHQ Summer Intelligence Internship attracted criticism last year, when it was labelled “racist”.

    It was offered only to young people from a “Black, Asian, mixed heritage or ethnic minority background and from a socially or economically disadvantaged background”.

    When the scheme was first advertised for this summer, Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, described it as “racist” and called for it to be axed.

    He said: “I understand the need to encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds, including under-represented minorities.

    “But this is an overtly racist policy and it should be immediately discontinued. It implies it’s impossible for any white person to be deprived or deserving of assistance.”

    Mr Philp leans on a wall on the terrace of the Houses of Parliament for a portrait shot, with the Thames behind him
    Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, labelled the programme ‘racist’ Credit: Nikki Powell
    Claire Coutinho, the shadow energy secretary, said: “Deciding who can do a summer internship scheme based on the colour of their skin is bad enough. To bar patriotic white Britons who want to serve their country, but allow white Irish people, is utterly mad.”

    The scheme states that people from an Irish Traveller background may apply.

    Ms Coutinho continued: “To make matters worse, the security services will also shut you out if you’re a child of a nurse, a cabbie or your dad ran a corner shop, while the child of an £80,000-a-year train driver is eligible.

    “This is state-sponsored discrimination. We should just choose the best people for the job. The Conservatives will defend fairness and stand firmly against ideology replacing competence.”

    However, despite widespread criticism, the scheme will go ahead.

    It will run for 10 or more weeks, depending on the intelligence service, to “increase diversity within our organisations”.

    The advert states that applicants must also be “from a socially or economically disadvantaged background”, which is “currently under-represented in the UK’s Intelligence Services”.

    One former senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer previously said he believed the decision not to allow poor white students to apply was “blatant discrimination”.

    Recommended

    How 'positive action' in police recruitment became anti-white discrimination
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    Tim Davies, who was a squadron leader, said: “Opportunities are being denied to white children, that’s just a fact. They cannot apply just because they are white.”

    He said that the RAF had made a similar mistake when pursuing a recruitment policy, which led to accusations that it had discriminated against white men in its effort to meet “aspirational diversity targets”.

    In 2022, the Ministry of Defence admitted that “despite the best of intentions, some mistakes were made” after reports of an RAF recruitment drive which appeared to favour women and ethnic minority candidates.

    The inquiry followed the resignation of the RAF’s head of recruitment, after she reportedly refused an order to hire more diverse candidates because she believed it was “unlawful”.

    The large post-modernist building sits on the bank of the Thames
    MI6 is one of the intelligence service organisations pushing to hire non-white interns Credit: Mike Kemp/Corbis News
    Earlier this year, The Telegraph reported that an intern hired by GCHQ had stolen secret data in what was described as a national security breach.

    Hasaan Arshad, 25, took his work mobile to a top secret area of the GCHQ building, connected it to a workstation, and was then allowed to take the device home unchallenged.

    He transferred sensitive information to a hard drive linked to his personal computer, and was arrested one month later.

    It was not clear whether Arshad was admitted as an intern through the diversity scheme.

    The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, which is responsible for the Security Services, was contacted for comment.

    David Harris
    59 min ago
    Britain is in the grip of a complete failure of statecraft. We're doomed.

    MP

    Michael Pearce
    1 hr ago
    The protection and safety of the UK and our citizens is far more important than some faceless civil servant being able to tick a diversity box on a form. We seem to be led by people with little intelligence or understanding what their actual job entails.

    Peter UK
    1 hr ago
    A change in legislation is required to either modify or repeal Labour’s Equality Act 2010, the faux Conservatives showed no inclination in this regard, I imagine it’s up to Nigel Farage if he wishes to make this an election issue.

  86. The whole article.

    Our complicit elite is to blame for every sexual assault by an illegal migrant

    It is a fantasy to expect sex-starved men from misogynist cultures to respect our values and our women

    Allison Pearson
    5th August 2025, 7:28pm BST

    I was having coffee in the garden with John, the lovely man who comes to help me with all the jobs I can't manage (a temperamental pond pump and rampant blanket weed among them), when conversation turned to John's concern for his daughter.

    Kirstie's journey to college takes her past a former RAF base now occupied by illegal migrants who crossed the Channel in small boats. Their ranks have swollen recently to several hundred as the Government struggles to fulfil its promise to empty asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament. Not by deporting the legions of undocumented young males from Africa and the Middle East – of course not, silly! – but by secretly redistributing a majority of those migrants from hotels into HMOs (houses in multiple occupation) and military facilities, presumably in the hope that the public will be less likely to notice and kick off.

    But girls like Kirstie cannot fail to notice. Not when the foreign males who leer and hiss at them, as if they were living in Egypt not Essex, now outnumber the population of their village. Not when it is girls who were born here who are advised to change their behaviour to accommodate the culture of the new arrivals by being less provocative, and walking a different way to school.

    Lately John, like a lot of fathers I suspect, has started fearing the worst. "We were talking in the pub the other night and we decided that, in the end, it's men like us who will have to go down and defend our southern border," he said to me that day in the garden.

    The bees went about their buzzy business in the hollyhocks, there was a gentle trickle of water in the pond, its pump just mended by this good and reliable man. It was a quintessential English summer's day, temperate and benign as the people of these islands tend to be until roused, yet there we were, drinking our coffee and picturing thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of Johns, the backbone of our country, the sturdy yeomen who have always come to the rescue in centuries past, marching to the beaches of Kent to protect us against invasion. To protect their women and children.

    That may sound alarmist, apocalyptic even, but is it really? When men like John are discussing in Wetherspoons what normal people can clearly see is a national emergency, no online Starmer-Stasi snoopers can stop them much, though a panic-stricken, authoritarian government would like to shut down free speech.

    Things that we would once have thought unimaginable, indeed completely bonkers, now feel like weekly, almost hourly, occurrences. Over 25,000 migrants, mostly young males, have already broken into Britain this year (49 per cent more than at the same point last year), and the nation that launched the D-Day landings against a mighty foe is now reliant on a spell of bad weather to keep the numbers down. Or on the latest doomed government "one-in-one-out" scheme, beginning today, in which France generously allows herself to be bribed at British taxpayers' expense to take back maybe one of the 700 migrants who make the crossing in a single day, only to send the UK a substitute asylum seeker. Probably not a brain surgeon, to take a wild guess.

    Not only will such a tiny chance of being deported fail to act as a deterrent, it allows Labour to slyly open up a legal route into the UK while pretending it's a benefit to us.

    What would those who gave their lives in 1944 think of us – from Operation Overlord to Operation Over-Run in 80 years?

    Since the 2015-2016 New Years's Eve celebrations in Cologne, when around 1,200 women were raped or sexually assaulted by gangs of foreign men, I have warned repeatedly of the consequences of admitting young males from backward, misogynist cultures into a liberal, Western society. Naturally, telling the truth got me called "racist" and I earned a coveted place on an Islamophobia list.

    But the pretence that a farmer from Afghanistan suddenly turns into Hugh Grant the minute his trainers hit the shingle at Dover was always a progressive fantasy. Sex-starved lads raised to regard women as livestock (Afghan women are no longer allowed to speak outside the home let alone go to school) are poor candidates for integration. They were always going to take gross liberties with our liberty. And so here we are.

    In leafy Nuneaton, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two Afghan asylum seekers. Despite Warwickshire Police's best (make that worst) attempts to conceal their identity, Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, was charged last week with rape, while Mohammad Kabir, 23, was charged with kidnap, strangulation and aiding and abetting rape. The police explained they did not wish to reveal the suspects' immigration status for fear of exacerbating our old friend "community tensions". In this case, community tensions is code for furious parents who strangely don't want their daughters abducted, their innocence torn from them by barbarians who shouldn't be here in the first place.

    In another incident on July 13, a Sudanese man who was living in a three-star asylum hotel in the upmarket Cheshire suburb of Wilmslow allegedly tried to lure away a girl aged 10 while she was with her father.

    Epping, meanwhile, has seen fierce protests after an Ethiopian, who had only come ashore eight days earlier and was being put up at the Bell Hotel, was charged with the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.

    These alleged attacks are not an aberration; they are exactly what you would expect if you were to drop a gang of marauding vikings into a high-school prom at an all-girls' school. That has, effectively, been the policy of successive British governments. Our political class prefers to burnish their reputation among "our international partners" by remaining in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), making deportations almost impossible, while young girls – catcalled, groped, raped, strangled, abducted – are just thought of as unfortunate collateral damage. If they think about them at all.

    When it was disclosed recently that a superinjunction had been taken out by the last Conservative government to cover up importing thousands of Afghans into the UK, following a leak of names, I was berated on X by former defence minister Ben Wallace for daring to suggest that that underhand humanitarian mission could raise the level of risk for British women and girls.

    Mr Wallace thought the noble purpose of extricating men who may (or may not) have aided our armed forces was what mattered. I disagreed, foreseeing ever more rapes and cultural disintegration. A fate also predicted with some urgency, I notice, by US vice president JD Vance who last week accused Europe of "engaging in civilisational suicide".

    Coincidentally, a reader in Wiltshire got in touch to report how all those Afghans resettled in a local army camp are getting on. "It's horrific, Allison," she said. "The behaviour of the Afghans in Larkhill – loitering around children's playgrounds, lads 'messing' with girls on school buses, human faeces regularly found on dog walks in camp. The GP practice is closed to soldiers one day a week to allow the migrants exclusive access. The reception staff have been handed crib sheets on how to greet Afghans in their own language. They are incensed. 'Why aren't the immigrants given crib sheets on how to address us in our own language?' "

    My source says the Afghan families have been allocated most of the large houses, while soldiers who are entitled to bigger quarters are told "there isn't a three-bed house in the whole of Wiltshire". It's no surprise to learn that "resentment is massive. The Afghans get free food – the truck goes round at least twice a day.

    "If you drive through the camp, you'd think you were in Kabul – groups of several men walking ahead of the women all covered in head-to-toe niqabs. Since the news of the superinjunction broke, they've been put under curfew. All the lads were warned that if they spoke out they'd be put on a charge."

    See how the state acts to cover up its crimes against the British people. Whether it's silencing squaddies deprived of their rightful quarters or threatening with arrest those marvellous mums and grandmothers in raucously defiant pink who performed the Hokey-Cokey before staging a sit-in outside the Britannia Hotel asylum centre in Canary Wharf. It is politicians and senior civil servants who should be arrested, I reckon. They waste stupefying amounts of our money on people unlikely to ever make a net contribution to Britain and call it compassion. For whom? The National Audit Office has just predicted that, within 10 years, the cost of asylum accommodation will reach £15.3bn. It is intolerable. Imagine all the good such a sum could do to help struggling businesses and boost employment for our young people.

    Even when the popular sense of anger is palpable, as it is right now, the ability of our ruling class and much of the media to deny any adverse consequences of immigration is astonishing. I listened with mounting anger to Radio 4's PM programme on Monday (Sorry, mea culpa. I know you've told me to ditch the BBC!) where a reporter was trying to discredit data which showed that 40 per cent of sexual crimes in London were committed by foreign nationals. That, he explained, was only because migrants tend to be younger, and young men are most likely to commit those offences. I'm sure that will be a huge comfort to the traumatised women.

    All credit to Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick for causing consternation among the Open Borders fanatics by making the link between out-of-control migration and soaring rape figures. Compare the response of our woefully weak Prime Minister who wants to "put pressure" on police chiefs to be "as transparent as possible" about the ethnic background and immigration status of those charged with crimes such as rape and sexual assault. Even though it is the Crown Prosecution Service, which Sir Keir Starmer once ran, that refuses to keep track of the number of sexual offences by asylum seekers. We know why, don't we?

    Government sources said they hoped greater transparency would "help rebuild the public trust". As if. That's the same government which is mounting unprecedented and sinister surveillance to keep track of "anti-migrant" opinion. Fifty million people will shortly be helping the police with their enquiries.

    "If you come here illegally on a small boat you will face return," Sir Keir Starmer warbled at migrants yesterday. Not, "You will be deported immediately" but "you will face return." Or, let's face it and far more likely, "You will be handed a free phone and free accommodation which we will pinch from a soldier's family if we have to."

    Compare with Greece, which has set up secure camps to detain all illegal migrants for three months, all of them denied the ability to claim asylum. Emergency legislation is allowing Greeks to circumvent the ECHR. Denmark, another ECHR member, has practically closed the borders and is using gated detention camps, some housing up to 2,000 migrants who are allowed out for just two hours a day and cannot work. If a government wants to put its citizens first, it can. Ours doesn't.

    From now on, I suggest we put the blame for every rape, abduction and strangling by an illegal migrant squarely where it belongs – on the Government, Home Office civil servants and complicit media class.

    We don't want a one-in-one-out scheme, thanks all the same. We want a 50,000-in-50,000-out scheme ‡. We want Kirstie and every girl like her to be able to walk unmolested to school, not to be hissed at by men who lack all respect for our values and our women.

    If our leaders are too weak to act, lovely John and the yeomen of Britain will go to the border, and they will do what needs to be done.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/05/complicit-elite-blame-for-sex-assault-by-illegal-migrants

    ‡ No. None in and 2, 3, 4 million out. It's not just the Channel invaders who are cheating.

    1. In a different world back in the 80's my stepdaughter was at an art college in an enriched area,she and her friends had problems of being followed and harrassed by groups of ethnic youths following them back to their digs
      I was fortunate to employ many bootnecks to whom she was a bit of a pet they having known her since she was ten When I mentioned the problems an expedition was soon organised recce was quietly done the offending groups identified and separately corraled by 10 bloody hard blokes and "reasoned" with.Word soon got around and the problem stopped
      No cctv around in those days
      Today of course I and my mates would be doing 15 for Far White Terrorism

  87. Well, chums, it's now my bedtime. So I will wish you all a Good Night. Sleep well, and I hope to see you all early tomorrow morning.

  88. Greens are at it again. Attacking protestors against drag Queen story hour for toddlers in a library in NI.

    “Green Party councillor Anthony Flynn criticised those protesting the event, telling the Belfast Telegraph they were “trying to disguise their vile hatred as concern”.
    “These events are safe, joyful and inclusive,” he said.
    “[The protesters’] agenda is ugly and rooted in a deep-seated intolerance that has no place in a decent society.””

    I am so sick of reading the stupid words. All the time. “ vile hatred”. “Safe, joyful and inclusive”. “Deep-seated intolerance”. “No place in a decent society”. “Yadda yadda yadda bull-shit bingo”. What does any of it mean, anymore?

  89. Islington Council going vegan.

    “…Plant Based Councils has claimed credit for moving seven councils to a plant-based diet. Oxfordshire County Council, held by the Liberal Democrats, as well as Labour-held Calderdale and Exeter councils, have already committed to the move.
    Kush Naker, a leading member of the Camden Plant-based Councils campaign, described it as a “huge moment”, and said he was “thrilled that our council has shown real leadership.”
    He added: “This policy isn’t about telling individuals what to eat. It’s about ensuring that our public institutions reflect the urgent need to shift toward sustainable, inclusive, and compassionate food systems….””

    I swear if I hear the word “inclusive” again today I will explode.

    3. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

      I JUST DID!!!!!!

  90. well I didn’t have to wait long. The next friggin article.

    “GETTING along well with police is an example of white privilege, solicitors have been told in new anti-racism guidance.
    The Law Society, which represents more than 200,000 solicitors in England and Wales, has published new advice to help legal professionals use “more inclusive” language….”

    3. So let me get this right, I should spray paint "ACAB" on a wall to show that I'm not racist then?

        1. Perhaps, if they’re invited around for tea. My point, if I can remember the post, was that we’ll be in the same situation of no arable produce, let alone any shops or supermarkets, and having to live off the land.

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